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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The average student could begin the next school year having lost as much as a third of the expected progress from the previous year in reading and half of the expected progress in math...

the average student could fall seven months behind academically, while black and Hispanic students could experience even greater learning losses, equivalent to 10 months for black children and nine months for Latinos, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Company, the consulting group."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/coronavirus-education-lost-learning.html[/quote]

Fall behind who?  The imaginary children who stayed in school all year?  [/quote]

I love how blase everyone suddenly is about the importance of school.

But they are falling behind where they should be (maybe we should just flunk everyone). The effect is especially pronounced with poor kids. If a child's parents both went to Harvard, no, closing schools probably isn't going to matter so much to them. It's lower SES kids that everyone should be worrying about. From the article:

"A separate analysis of 800,000 students from researchers at Brown and Harvard looked at how Zearn, an online math program, was used both before and after schools closed in March. It found that through late April, student progress in math decreased by about half in classrooms located in low-income ZIP codes, by a third in classrooms in middle-income ZIP codes and not at all in classrooms in high-income ZIP codes."[/quote]

Falling behind whom?!?!? The imaginary children who have been in schools this whole time? Wtf[/quote]

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